What would petroleum products and labour exports do to stop the building of nuclear bombs? They were a cynical attempt to hurt the poor North Korean people, as if that would force the regime to divert resources from their nuclear programme. It was all in all a massively blunt instrument and relied on a very small side effect. So what if a few million people starve, so that a bomb or two less would be produced?
@BaboonHalRepublican3wks3W
Starvation was down to Kim's political, economic and agricultural policies, not an embargo on food, which arrived via the UN and China, or seeds, fertiliser, etc. And no revolution ever took place in a country with a well-fed middle class. The goal was not to punish anyone.
